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Iowa Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/25/2023
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Cache is not at posted coordinates

 

This is one state that is part of the U.S.A. geoart.  Each state features an unusual but real name of a town in the state. Please consider giving a favorite point(s) to the one(s) you like the best!

 


 

Iowa: What Cheer

N 41° 49.779' W 89° 16.237'

When a man named Peter Britton settled this southeast Iowa community in the 1850s, he attempted to name it Petersburg after himself. But another early inhabitant, Joseph Andrews, helped to establish a post office in the mid-1860s, naming it — and subsequently the town — after the old English greeting “what cheer.” Today, What Cheer (pronounced “wot cheer”) has about 600 residents, down from about 5,000 at its coal-mining peak.

 

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